The Best Middle Eastern Food in Paris
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The best Middle Eastern food in Paris, according to the experts: Le Fooding, Michelin Guide, and The Infatuation have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Tekés comes out on top.
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Kubri and Sama Bistro hold the next two places. Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Le Fooding next.
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Rank 1. Tekés
Middle Eastern
An open fire in the kitchen is the engine of this Tel Aviv-style sharing restaurant in the 2nd, where the chef's team grills and chars vegetables with the kind of focus usually reserved for meat. The menu leans heavily vegetarian, built around Levantine flavors and Middle Eastern spices, and the room leans into the ceremony its name promises. The waitstaff move with choreographed precision, which sounds exhausting but lands as theater.
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Restaurants In Paris For Vegetarians & Vegans
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Paris For Vegetarians & Vegans
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Rank 2. Kubri
Lebanese
Kubri is a women-run Lebanese spot on the Marais edge, built for sharing small plates and ordering far too many of them. Cocktails lean on sumac, rosewater, and arak, and the dips come with bread because that's the whole point of a dip. Vegetarians eat especially well here. The playlist is pop hits, turned up as the night goes on, so bring a group that doesn't need to discuss anything over dinner.
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 24 Best Restaurants In Paris
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Restaurants In Paris For Vegetarians & Vegans
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
- The Infatuation The 24 Best Restaurants In Paris
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Paris For Vegetarians & Vegans
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Rank 3. Sama Bistro
Lebanese
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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Rank 4. Guefen
Middle Eastern
A glazed facade beside the 12th arrondissement's town hall marks this quietly confident modern restaurant, where the chef runs a single set menu that shifts with the seasons and leans into Middle Eastern flavors and seafood. The cooking is precise and a little unexpected, the kind of food that makes you put down your phone. Service keeps up without making you feel managed.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 4. Liza
Lebanese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 4. Qasti Green
Vegetarian Lebanese
A vegetarian Lebanese restaurant in the 2nd where the chef's niece, trained by her grandmother in Beirut-style home cooking, runs the kitchen. The menu reads like a greatest-hits of what Lebanon does with vegetables: shawarma built around celery and mushrooms, lentil balls simmered in tomato sauce, a cauliflower take on baba ganoush they've named mama ganoush. Prices are gentle, the room is spare and calm, and booking ahead saves the trip.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 7. L’As Du Fallafel
Middle Eastern Kebab Shop
This is a falafel stand on rue des Rosiers with a bright green storefront and a line that wraps the sidewalk. You pay while you wait, so by the window the transaction is mostly choreography. The pita comes stuffed with herby falafel, cabbage, cucumber, and fried eggplant, and it's a two-handed affair. Eat it in the nearby park, or join the shorter indoor line, which costs a little extra and buys you a bathroom.
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Sandwiches In Paris
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Restaurants In The Marais